Dunn Building plans $1.2 million corporate headquarters in Birmingham

Dunn Building Co. built the Hope VI project in 2003 that became Park Place in downtown Birmingham. (The Birmingham News/File)

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- The Birmingham City Council's economic development committee today approved plans for $40,000 in sidewalk and infrastructure improvements to help secure a new $1.2 million corporate headquarters for Dunn Building Co.

Dunn Building Co. plans to relocate from Vestavia Hills to Messer Airport Highway and 39th Street North, where it already operates Dunn Investment Co. The consolidation into a single corporate headquarters will bring 18 jobs to the city with plans to grow to 27 new jobs.

A new building will be built to house the corporation.

Tracey Morant Adams, director of the Birmingham Mayor's Office of Economic Development, said Dunn is one of several corporate headquarters the city is looking to land.

She said there are two Shelby County companies that are looking to relocate into Birmingham.

"We're not going out there and just trying to pull companies from our neighbors, but if they want to relocate into the city we will work with them," Adams said.

Also at today's committee meeting, the committee approved reimbursing PrincetonBaptist Medical Center $319,845.37 for the cost of preparing design plans and specifications for the Cotton Avenue street realignment project.

Both items now move on to the city council's budget and finance committee for its approval and then on to the full council if successful there.